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Bicing Bike Sharing System Hits The Streets Of Buenos Aires Tomorrow

Photo: Buenos Aires Government via Clarin. The Buenos Aires government sure is doing something right aggressively pushing bike use, even against complaining drivers or dumb press campaigns. After creating new bike paths and better conditions for bike parking , they are now officially launching the city’s bike sharing system,

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Weekday Vegetarian: Pinto Bean Mole Chili

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve tried lots of vegetarian chilies over the years, but I seldom find them really satisfying. My book club was having a chocolate themed dinner and I found this recipe for Pinto Bean Mole Chili and decided to try it. Everybody loved it, and they ate the entire pot, along with all the other main course offerings that people brought…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Can We Get Schools to Foster Healthy Eating Habits?

Photo by Ezra Gregg via DC Central Kitchen/Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Convincing kids to eat healthy foods is tough, but getting parents to come over to the healthy school lunch camp can be even tougher. A few of the moms at my kids school have been wag… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Budget Cuts Threaten Healthier School Lunches in the Nation’s Capital

Photo credit: avilasal / Creative Commons When Washington, DC, passed the “Healthy Schools” initiative earlier this year, it took a leap ahead of the rest of the country in terms of serving quality, healthy, food in it’s school districts. With three in four students at risk of hunger and one in three overweight or obese, there is perhaps no place that needed such a program more. But now, due to a $188 million gap in the city’s budget, this program has been stripped of its funding…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Animals Are Becoming Obese Like Us, Says Study

Photo: Yukari* / CC Obesity rates among people worldwide have soared over the last several decades — but it turns out that humans aren’t the only ones packing on the pounds. According to a recent study from the University of Alabama, many animals that spend too much time living around humans are prone to becoming overweight, and researchers aren’t entirely sure why…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Two New Cancer Studies Point to Seaweed and Sunlight For Prevention

Photo: FearfulStills Recent University of South Carolina (USC) studies have outlined two important tools in cancer prevention. The studies, which were carried out at USC’s Arnold School of Health and the South Carolina Cancer Center, found that seaweed and sunlight both had a huge impact on cancer prevention, according to The State . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Goji Berries in Your Backyard Garden?

Photo: merci Superfoods can be a super waste as I’ve said before on TreeHugger. From goji berries to acai, chia, and maca, Americans spend $10 billion on superfoods each year and for the majority of us, they have to be flown in from upwards of 5,000 miles away. But now Natural News may have a solution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Secondhand Smoke Kills More Than 600,000 A Year

photo via Smoke Free Texas I sat outside a Starbucks in Houston, Texas the other day, trying to enjoy my soy latte but I was surrounded by smokers. I didn’t ask them to stop–it was a smoking-allowed area–but perhaps I should have anyway, and I could have told them about a new study, published yesterday in The Lancet, which finds that secondhand smoking kills more than 600,000 lives each year around the world…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turning Printed Words into (Non-Literary) Works of Art

A recycled-paper necklace by Devi Chand. Photo: hippie kingdom . Feeling the weight of a book in my hands, flipping back through its pages to re-read a particularly crucial or well-written paragraph, using a bookmark to hold my place while I ponder what I’ve just read — those are some of the things I still love about reading. But with e-books fast on the rise, it’s time to think, however reluctantly, about what will happ… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Moroccan Flatbread

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve been looking at street foods from around the world and found this recipe for a really tasty snack of Moroccan flat bread. We actually ate this for breakfast this morning and everybody liked it. You can whip it up in no time at all and then it fries quickly for something a little different…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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